Industry, firm, year, and country effects on profitability in EU food processing

dc.creatorSchiefer, Jan
dc.creatorHartmann, Monika
dc.date2017-04-01T14:05:41Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-09T07:42:49Z
dc.descriptionThis paper decomposes the variance in food industry return-on-assets into year, country, industry, and firm effects. Besides these main effects, we include several interactions and discuss their theoretical foundations. After determining effect significance in a nested ANOVA with a rotating pattern of effect introduction, we estimate effect magnitude using components of variance on a large sample of corporations. The results show that firm characteristics are far more important than industry structure in determining food industry profitability. Main effects and interactions of year and country membership are weak, indicating that performance differentials can poorly be explained by macroeconomic and trade theory.
dc.identifierdoi:10.22004/ag.econ.162878
dc.identifierhttps://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/162878/files/dispap13_02.pdf
dc.identifierhttp://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/162878
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/591375
dc.languageeng
dc.publisher
dc.sourcehttp://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/162878
dc.titleIndustry, firm, year, and country effects on profitability in EU food processing
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